Improved boot-jack and brush



SAMUEL KENNEDY, 0F -ROGHESTER PENNSYLVANIA.

Ler'frslmm No. 102,014, dated April 19, 1870.l

IMPROVED BOOT-JACK .ND IBRU'SH.v

The Schedule referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all. whom it may concern Be it known that I., SAMUEL KENNEDY, of Rochester,'in the county of Beaver and State of' Pennsylvania, have invented a new' and useful Improvement in Combination Boot-jacks; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art `to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing .ibrming part of this specification.

` The object of this invention is Atocombine in a small' space a boot-jack, blacking-brush, and blacking-box, so' that the necessary apparatus for removing the boot from the foot, and blacking it, may be always together, and more portable than they` usually are; and it con sists in the construction, arrangement, and combination hereinafter described.

'.In the accompanying drawing- Figure l represents a vertical longitudinal section through the line :c x of iig. 2.

Figure 2 is a cross-section through y y of fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a top view of the combination on a modiiied plan. i

Similar let-ters of reference indicate corresponding parts. v v

A-represents the back, and

B, the fork of the hoot-jack.

This fork may be made stationary with 'the back, and form a. part of the bIacking-box, as seen in g. l,

or it may be pivoted to the back, so that it may be turned round onto the vhack, thereby rendering the boot-jack more. portable than it otherwise would be.

(ll is the Hacking-box, which forms the bridge of the bootjack, which is fastened to the back A, as seen in fig. 1.

This arranUement is not onlvextrernel Y"convenient y for travelers whose-object isY to economize roo'm in packing their baggage, butto allwho'des'ire to econo` inize room ormoney by putting ou t hei1'f,.o\vn shne,

nvt-hingV and to nd j and wish to have a place foreve everything in its place. v

1 am .aware that .articles of'thisfkind have been manufactured heretofore, but thefconstruction of parts was diii'erent, and failed to produce an article so well adapted to the purpose as inyimprored 'boot-jack and brush. K

Having thus'descrihed my invention,

I claim as new andvdesirc. to secure by Letters Patent- .p

Ihe anged plate A, having a dovetailed groove ou lthe under side, and the brush E. fitting therein, in comi' bination with3 the fork B and boxO, made in a single piece and recessed to receiveand support the former,

as set forth.

SAMUEL KENNEDY.

Witnesses GILBERT PENDLE/rox, J. 'R. PEXDLETON. 

